About Route 55

*blinks* Well, what can you say about this? Basically, R55 is a Good Charlotte
fansite run by a Good Charlotte-obsessed freak. But doesn't that apply to all
fansites? Well, I (Jedi_Amara) started the site because (a) I love Good Charlotte;
(b) I was trying to prove to Shana that I'm more obsessed with Joel than she
is (I AM! REALLY! ASK, ER, ME AND SEE! XD); (c) Greg gave
me a domain name and I wanted to have lots of subdomains o_O XD; (d) Shawn gave
me a heap of webspace and I was trying to work out what to do with
it;
(e)
I wanted
to
try
out a
CSS layout and didn't want to do it on one of my existing
sites.
(Yes,
I'll
admit
it:
I have
about
14
of
them.
o_O
Nice,
huh?) In any case, you see the result in front of you - a rather freakishly
named site. Why is it called Route 55? Well, it's a reference to the song Little
Things:

And the rich kids had convertibles, and we had to ride the
bus (55)

I figured the 55 was probably the number of the bus the boys
(<33333333333 Joel) took to school, and after some random querying on GCMB it
turned out no one knew... people either agreed with me, or thought it applied
to the speed limit in the US. In any case, I decided to call my site Route
55 because it was different (no "Good Charlotte World" or something, I learnt
that with "Patamon's World"), and "Route 55" sounds better than "Bus 55" or
"Number 55". :P

Brief history? Let's make it very brief, because there isn't
exactly much of it yet. :P

Site created: Wednesday 17 November, 2004

Site went live: Saturday 20 November, 2004

Site went down: around 28 December, 2004 (the server had problems and got
pulled in mid-backup, when I went to camp)

Site back up: Friday 28 January, 2005 (yep, a month of downtime!)

And yeah, that's about it. Still working on more of that history. XD When
you see this site, you see history in the making, and you're making it! XD
I <33333333333333 Joel. o_O Yeah, that was random. JA is a random person.
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